Apparently, she was with some of them the other night and one of the other girls made a remark about Stranded’s “giving up” and “settling” for someone who is not “k’lei kodesh.”
I heard a story about a certain Rosh Yeshiva whose daughter was redt to a working boy. Her brothers tried to insist that, as the daughter of a Rosh Yeshiva, she should only go out with chosheve learning boys. The father said that as long as the boy will treat his daughter well and be a good ehrliche Jew who will build a Torah home, that is fine with him, he wasn’t interested in a boy for her just because he was known as the best learner in his Yeshiva.
btw, Stranded probably shouldn’t be talking about this with these friends at all. It’s fine, and probably even recommended, to talk about dating with a few friends but from this it sounds like all of her friends are gossiping about her dating life which isn’t right. Friends who make these type of comments are not the ones who she should be talking to about her dates.